Fedora 8 install failure

[Anders Hartman]

Gus skrev:
> Try installing the 32 bit version, instead of the 64 bit.
> I don't guarantee that it's going to work, good luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-laptop-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Anders Hartman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: Chris Snook
> Cc: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora 8 install failure
>
> Chris Snook skrev:
>   
>> Anders Hartman wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq 8710p laptop.
>>> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new install, come to 
>>> the blue screen that
>>> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check requester. After the 
>>> check is done (or skipped),
>>> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and shuts down the 
>>> system.
>>>
>>> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.3. They 
>>> install and works flawlessly.
>>> However, I'm a Fedora guy ;-)
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>       
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------- 
>   
>>> Some system facts:
>>>
>>> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
>>> 4 GB RAM
>>> ST9120823AS hard disc
>>> NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
>>> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
>>> Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
>>> Intel WiFi Link 4965AG
>>>
>>> Additional info
>>>
>>> The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just fine. Can't make a
>>> clean (swedish) install with this though.
>>>       
>> I had some nasty problems, quite similar to this, using the F8 x86_64 
>> graphical installer on a few boxes with Nvidia cards.  The text 
>> installer worked fine though, and the problem went away when I made a 
>> respin with revisor that used newer packages.  Try the Fedora Unity 
>> respin.
>>
>>     -- Chris
>>
>>
>>     
> Hello Chris,
>
> I have now tried the following with Fedora 8 Unity 20080204 respin:
>
> Install with graphical UI.
> Install with text UI.
> Install with text UI using kernel modifiers (noprobe, headless, noapic, 
> acpi=off) one at the time.
> Use boot.img from the DVD to do a text install over the network.
>
> I'm getting a stack dump all the time.
>
> The kernel seems to be alive though. Alt-F2,Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 still 
> works. I can't see any trace of
> what went wrong in anacron.log or syslog.
>
> Booting up in rescue mode from the DVD also works.
>
> I wonder what's missing in Fedora that OpenSUSE and Ubunto has.
>
> More things to try?
>
> Digging deeper and deeper
> /Anders
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Thanks for that angle of attck,

No luck with the original Fedora 8 i386 DVD. Anaconda hangs on the line 
"Running /sbin/loader".
No stack dump this time. Tried both graphical and text mode. No errors 
in the log.
Will download the i386 respin and try that too.

/Anders